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    CAUSE AND CONSEQUENCES OF YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT; THE CASE OF WOLKITE TOWN, CENTERAL ETHIOPIA
    (WOLKITE UNIVERSITY, 2023-11) Petros Niga
    unemployment in Gurage Zone Wolkite Town. To answer the study objective, data were collected by a structured questionnaire from 269 respondents’ selected using simple random sampling technique and analyzed using binary logistic regression and the collected data were analyzed by statistical software packages such as STATA and Microsoft Excel. Thus, depending on the study the main cause of youth unemployment in the town are gender, age, education year, work experience, social network density, exposure to any social mass media, occupation, job opportunities and technological improvement those are significant variables and The consequences of youth unemployment in the town are alcoholism and prostitution, high crime rate, lack of peace and security, lack of self-respect, dependency, decreases in consumption and increasing poverty. Therefor the current status of youth unemployment in Wolkite town is high and it show more percepts of youths live in the town was unemployed due to different factors and it indicates there is unemployment problem in the Wolkite Town. Because of the seriousness of the problem measures like giving opportunity to self-employed activities, expanding private institutions to create job opportunities, establishing non-governmental and governmental institution should be taken to reduce unemployment in the town